Robert Reich on Columbia U

[Nanjeanne]

4. Well I don't engage with many as it is completely hopeless. And some just repeat the same rhetoric that doesn't

incite dialogue. Others are just plain nasty and insulting to posts. But I happen to have had an interest in Israel/Gaza/peace way before Oct 7th and I do have a lot of history books, first person narratives and magazine articles on my shelves. This was personal to me in many ways. It's my way of honoring my two uncles who fought in the French resistence - one who was killed and the other maimed but lived to a good old age. And to the family I have in Israel who continued to work alongside Palastinian peace activists for a way forward for Israel to have real security. But then there are some who neither believe "my story" or have heard about my family ad nauseum and could care less about (so much for loving Israel and Israelis)!

Otherwise - I look to the great Mark Twain: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”